Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Grateful 157

I'm grateful for: Riding through villages on the back of motorbikes! Today, Sotheaross and I went to collect info from some villages. Since we weren't delivering water filters, we didn't need the truck. So for the first time, I found myself speeding down the dirt roads through the villages on the back of a motorbike. Fun times!

As we passed by all the sights that have now become customary for me - motorbikes loaded down with pigs, stilted houses and village shops, kids playing in the dirt lot of the local school, men on bull drawn carts, chickens crossing the road - I wondered what everyone else I knew was seeing and doing at that moment. It's odd sometimes to try to imagine that - to imagine what your friends and family are doing at that exact moment half a world away. It's hard to really imagine, to try to have your mind in two places at once. Whichever world you're not in at the moment always seems like a dream world.

Siem Reap. Cambodia.